Thursday, September 15, 2011

Building/Ground: Educational Projects

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Greenwich Academy Upper School, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, 2004 designed by SOM
Greenwich Academy’s new Upper School and Library unifies the campus and enhances the site’s natural beauty. The site’s topographical complexity was used to join the campus’s upper and lower levels through the medium of a building.  -- architect's web site.

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Ewha Womans University Campus Center, Seoul, South Korea designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture.
Blurring the line between construction and topography, French architect Dominique Perrault’s campus center for Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea’s trendy Sinchon district is seamlessly integrated into the sloping hillside it intersects. At the crux of the prestigious campus, this multitiered, multifunctional hive of activity anchors the site and creates a landscape of its own. -- Architectural Record November 2008.
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School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore designed by CPG Corporation.
The curving green roofs distinguish the building from among the other structures on campus but the line between landscape and building is blurred. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting. -- Inhabitat
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Small Animal Hospital, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK designed by Archial, formerly SMC Davis Duncan Architects
the hospital expresses a clear conceptual idea – lift the sloping grassland and insert the building beneath. This has enabled the architecture to be remarkably discreet from the road and approach, and leaves an impression of an almost untouched part of the Garscube Estate, except that a glass lantern sits atop the lawn.  -- Architecture Today

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Becton Dickinson Campus Center, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA designed by RMJM
The Campus Center at BD (Becton Dickinson and Company), a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public, is a 38,500-square-foot facility that bridges and blurs the boundaries between building/landscape, indoor/outdoor, roof/earth, figure/ground, and the two local business cultures of management/production. Site design focused on sustainability and the sanctity of the open space between the main buildings known as the “Great Lawn.” -- ArchDaily

Source: Aitor Ortiz archdaily.com
BTEK – Technology Interpretation Center, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain, 2009 designed by ACXT
  • Create a very flexible and varied exhibition space, able to accommodate all types of exhibitions. Installations should be highly energy efficient (geothermal systems for climate control) and that use renewable energy sources (a building-integrated photovoltaic system connected to a 60kw network).
  • The geometry of the covering where the solar panels are integrated should be triangular—similar to the shape of Technology Park’s logo. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hiroyuki Oki archdaily.com
Binh Duong School, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam designed by Vo Trong Nghia
This continuous volume has a gentle slope surrounding the two courtyards as a geographical hill, lessens the aggressive height between the building and the peaceful site. The school is designed as an S shape, connected to the ground at one end, curving around two courtyards with two different characteristics. -- ArchDaily

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Mulan Primary School, Jiangxi Province, China designed by Rural Urban Framework
With this six-classroom addition to a primary school in Jiangxi Province, RUF produced a U-shaped structure with a courtyard open on one side. A continuous roof begins as a series of steps, providing a public space and open classroom, before turning into a regular roof and dropping down again to meet the courtyard. -- Architectural Record

Source: Campuzano Arquitectos archdaily.com
Educational Institute La Samaria, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia,2012 designed by Campuzano Arquitectos
The main building appears like a boat that floats in the middle of the district and becomes a visual referent that promotes a new urban value. The different levels of the project are reached by an exterior ramp connected by bridges to the auditorium’s covering which is, at the same time, the primary patio. The scheme of the project produces a covered public plaza on the most important  corner of the district, that allows joined activities among the school and the community. -- ArchDaily

Source: Gremsy archdaily.com
Farming Kindergarten, Biên Hòa, Dong Nai, Vietnam,2013 designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
....the building is conceived as a continuous green roof, providing food and agriculture experience to children, as well as an extensive playground to the sky. The green roof is a triple-ring shape drawn with a single stroke, encircling three courtyards inside as safe playgrounds. Recently, an experimental vegetable garden was realized on its top. Five different vegetables are planted in 200m2 garden for agriculture education. -- ArchDaily

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